The Department of Improvement, Reconstruction and Reconstruction of the Kharkiv City Council ordered the renovation of a building at 28/64 Buchmy Street from the private enterprise "Construction Company "Promtex". The cost of the project is UAH 138.3 million, funding comes from the Ukraine Facility program. The work is planned to be completed by the end of 2026.
The house was indeed damaged by Russian shelling, but the estimate is suspicious. The documentation records prices for building materials that are two to three times overstated. For example, thermal insulation boards cost the city 1,224 UAH/m², although in Kharkiv stores their price starts at 474 UAH. The primer was laid at 511 UAH/kg (market price – 277 UAH), repair mortar – 179 UAH/kg (market price – 59 UAH), putty – 146 UAH/kg (market price – 62 UAH). Only in these positions the alleged overpayment exceeds 4 million UAH.
Promtex is a long-time favorite of the city council. It has already received over UAH 3.4 billion in government orders, mostly from the same department. The competition in the tender looked more like an imitation: Avtomagistral-Zahid LLC submitted a more expensive offer, and there were no requirements at all to confirm experience in performing similar works.
Thus, under the guise of restoring destroyed housing in Saltivka, tens of millions are being siphoned from the budget and donor funds. The cost of repairing one high-rise building is actually equal to the cost of a hundred new apartments. For the Kharkiv community, this does not mean reconstruction, but another example of cynical business on the ruins of the city.
